Vinyl dolls in the developing world fight to survive
I don’t know if this says something about Chinese unfamiliarity with black people or if it’s just a fluke, but check out this news article from xinhua about the risks facing newborns in the developing world (and I realize the text is cut off; I just want you to look at the picture):
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The caption under the photo of the winsome newborn reads: “1 in every 5 women in sub-Saharan Africa has lost a baby in the first month of life.” The only problem is, that winsome newborn is a vinyl doll.
By the weirdest coincidence — the kind that makes me think God really is talking to me, though her choice of subject matter is distressingly trivial — last night I happened to be thumbing through a two-year-old magazine that featured a full-page ad for “Jasmine,” a collectible doll from the Ashton-Drake Galleries:
Ashton-Drake boasts that Jasmine is “amazingly life-like.” The Chinese, at least, would seem to agree.
2 Responses to “Vinyl dolls in the developing world fight to survive”
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gordo says:
What I like most about this is the fact that the caption implies that this is a photo of one of those month-old mothers who have lost a child.
Xinhua is always worth a read, thanks to their refusal to have a native speaker translate their news copy.
May 9th, 2006 at 7:44 pm EST -
Txfeminist says:
hilarious… OMG! Violet, I cannot, absolutely cannot, read this stuff at work. I wind up snorting so loud the whole floor can probably hear me.
giggle.
